Wednesday, September 26, 2007

If you're a regular reader of the MZone, you probably know about The Buckstache - our moniker for a mustache sported by Buckeye fans, players and players-to-be, a grooming choice which we here at the MZone noticed seems to increase one's chances of being arrested by, oh, about 684%.

Now, having never solicited a prostitute myself (although some who know the girl I asked to my high school homecoming dance junior year may dispute that), I always thought such transactions were more of a late night affair. I guess Henton was thinking, "Damn, really want to get laid, but don't want to be out late doing it."

And how sad to see a varsity football player at a top ten program have to resort to prostitution for sex (rather than drunk sororities girls saying, "I don't normally do this."). Man, it must really suck to be third string at OSU.

On other note, just the thought of a "Columbus hooker" is almost enough to initiate the ol' gag reflex.

68 comments:

the idea that any varsity player would need to get a hooker in this town is mind boggling. the level of "groupiness" that follows tosu football is astounding. from the doe eyed frosh (or younger, for example- 2004 stories on a certain WR) to booster's wives (for example- prior stories a b-ball recruiting scandals under O'Brien), that Henton needed to hire someone? go figure?

srudoff,your level of level of denial, like so many tosu fans, is so far past disbelief and cognitive dissonance that i think most michigan fans don't bother reading your endless excuses, let alone replying (yeah, i don't know why i bother, either). if 30+ arrests in 6+ seasons is what you think happens "everywhere", good for you.

actually, the story isn't really interesting because it's another tosu arrest- that's very old news to the point of boring everyone.

it's merely interesting because of the type of crime.

on another note, tosu suspended Henton indefinitely following arraignment this a.m. let's face it- he is third string.

the guy just wanted a $20 hooker instead of a sorority girl that he'd have to talk to afterwards. Call me a liberal, but i don't see what's wrong with that. I know it's illegal, and i know some of you (especially the married ones) consider it immoral, but there's a reason that prostitutes are called the "oldest profession": it's been going on since the beginning of times.

This country, with some of its values left over from the Puritan times, is light years behind other countries in issues such as gambling and prostitution.

What the guy did was illegal, but i don't see a capital crime here (in fact, i see a victimless crime)

So Lesueur got suspended during the summer... do you know what that suspension entailed? I'm betting on no. Adrian Arrington got suspended from the team for the summer too... I'm pretty darn sure, after hearing what he had to go through to get back on the team, that he'd rather have been suspended for a few games.

Surrounded, so somehow 15 arrests is a permissible number for a D-1 school, but OSU's number is not? Isn't that doing the denial stuff you just got on your high horse about?

Look, I'm not saying that everyone that plays for Ohio State is a saint, far from it. I'm also not justifying the crimes. All I'm saying is you're throwing stones from glass houses. And doing it in a very condescending manner.

And if you want to warp statistics, lets compare arrests in the past year. I think you've got the lead in that one. Although, to be fair, you're no Texas.

what would i be in denial about? he fucked up and he should be suspended. my pointing out lesueur was to make sure people who live in glass houses don't throw stones. just like if OSU ever loses to a 1 AA school, we won't be able to bring up Appalachian state anymore. Until then, we'll continue to remind Michigan fans that they lost to a team that lost to Wofford.

Since SiC likes to go back in time, I will remind him that the reason for Lloyd Carr's hiring is that your HEAD COACH was stupid enough to be drunk and disorderly in a strip joint. SiC can condescend all he wants, but I'm sure he will give us a complete breakdown of every tOSU arrest since prohibition while forgetting all UM indescresions. I think SiC majored in Revisionist History.

Surrounded - You're living in the past. Not surprising since Michigan's last outright National Championship was in 1948. LOL.

Ohio State had 1 arrest in 2006, and now 1 in 2007. Compare that to Michigan's multiple arrests and Top 5 finish in the 2007 Fulmer Cup and you'll see that Ohio State is much improved, while Michigan is heading in the wrong direction.

You should be proud of that Fulmer Cup finish. We all know you won't be Top 5 in anything else.

srudoff,you're right. he f'd up & should be suspended. don't think anyone said much other than that until a bunch of thin skinned tosu fans showed up making excuses for him.

face it- you guys are embarrassed by the off field behavior over Switzer's tenure, whether you admit it or not. the fact that you swarm like flies over this confesses it. people laugh at you, your name has become linked w/ scandal, and you don't like it. and there's nothing you can do about it but count the W's and tell yourself that is all that matters.

so, let's all just save ourselves some time. next time there's a tosu arrest, instead of all this typing, just pick your excuse from the list below, and type the number. it'll be a lot quicker.

1) Oh yeah? it's just like that at michigan.

2) It happens everywhere.

3) The press always makes too much of this when you're the best.

4) Tressel's a disciplinarian.

5) Running laps really is a good punishment.

6) It doesn't happen here anymore often than anywhere else.

7) Yeah, well, we OWN you!

that should speed things along.

now, go ahead and type another dozen posts about our w-l record, lesuer's 2000 arrest (and you accuse ME of living in the past?), and how successful your program is.

Sru,sorry to piss on the cornflakes dude, but i think you may have misread the docket.

the ozone (which, let me say, carries an outstandingly well written and relatively unbiased analysis of the previous michigan game every monday, titled, not surprisingly, "michigan monday") had a report early in the day that the it wasn't clear that the "antonio henton" arrested was the tosu QB, as the birthdate on the pleading didn't jive w/ that in the media guide.

if you run the search on just his name, no b-dates, you'll see two cases for the same name. both have the same descriptions, allegations, etc., but each has a different date of birth. otherwise they're identical. one has been dismissed. the other is still standing.

i'm thinking (it's just a guess) the dismissed case is the wrong birthday. the other (still pending) is the correct.

it's times like these, and ONLY times like these, when I wish that Coach Carr was coaching the Buckeyes. Run a few stairs, miss the first quarter against one of the directional michigan schools and all is forgiven.

but now that i think about it, maybe all the off the field problems @ tosu was Lloyd all along. that must be it.

remember when Boone got hit w/ his OMVI Spring, 2006?

since Sweater Boy runs a tight ship (#4), he would have handed out some iron punishment, man of honor that he is.

what must have happened is that Switzer and Carr traded summer jobs. it was really Carr who punished Boone w/ "internal discipline". then when Switzer came back, he started Boone @ tackle w/out ever missing a game, because he thought Lloyd had taken care of it?

now that i think about it, that would also explain the BCS game, right? Switzer had a "paterno-like" problem or something, so they had Lloyd put on a sweater vest and stand in. then he was the one to make the call for the off tackle run on 4th & 1 on the tosu 29 late in the 2nd quarter? that would explain a lot, i suppose.

maybe i'll add a "#8- it was really Lloyd in disguise" to the pick list of excuses.

again, i made no excuses whatsoever so your list is assinine. he messed up, he deserves to be punished. no excuses. and once again, lesueur and harrison were brought up for the glass houses effect. no excuses. so you're saying i'm in denial but didn't back that up and giving us a list of excuses but no one made any excuses. even when i said "it happens in michigan" i made a point to say my intention was to stop any holier than thou rhetoric (more glass houses) - no excuses.

Moeller got a little drunk at Excalibur, which was a FANCY suit and tie restaurant, not a strip club.

The point of this thread isn't that another tOSU player got in trouble with the law -- Michigan fans point to this last summers transgressions as another reason Carr needs to go -- but that he is sporting a Buckstache!

No Buckstache = No post. The $20 he tried to offer the hooker would have been better spent on an engineering student designing a 15 blade razor that you could hold a foot away from your face and get a close shave.

Pointing out that michigan has had one arrest for every dozen arrests of tosu players under Tressel is supposed to convey what? That since michigan has some arrests, that makes tosu’s huge volume of arrests alright somehow?

Your program under Switzer has had more player arrests for off field crimes than damned near anyone in the country over the same stretch. What’s your point? leseur’s arrest in 2000 means others shouldn’t be allowed to criticize the roughly 30 or so tosu has had since?

That’s living in a glass house?

Hell, tosu has had almost as many felony charges as michigan has had arrests for anything.

Every program has kids get in trouble. The number of kids in our program that have had problems is right in the fat part of the bell curve since 2001. Tosu’s is twice to three times that.

i don't think you're understanding anything here - i'm not comparing volume, just pointing out that Michigan has had a player arrested for the same thing, along with another player with a similar deviation (actually probably a much worse deviation). i typed that slowly in hopes that it would help you understand

yes. that helped. i was able to read that w/ out moving my lips too fast.

we had someone arrested for this in 2000, so we live in a glass house. got it. we shouldn't think badly of switzer's program because we had someone arrested for the same thing 7 years ago, right? because you judge a program by a single event, no matter how long ago, rather than looking at a series of events over a period of time. sure.

and of course you're not comparing volume. the single arrest in 2000 condemns the whole program basically forever? that's how to judge a program's off the field integrity. not how many times something happens, but whether it ever happened. only the perfect are allowed to find fault in others.

some of you forgot:Students recieving booster money while tressel is at YSU: countlessstudents receiving booster money while tressel is at tOSU: one we know ofstudents receiving booster money while carr at Umich: 0if they are, at least they know when to shut their mouths and not be obnoxious about it. if you wan to know about ann arbor hookers, ask the pikes, they know

complete bullshit... your complete M.O. is not to offer anything constructive to the forum. You constantly whine and bitch and complain about "elitist Michigan" and "obsessed with tOSU Michigan" and yet for the year I've been posting here, all I've ever seen you do is poke your head in solely to stir up trouble. Who's obsessed with who? (it's a rhetorical question, you need not answer).

And then in your canned list of responses is "it happens everywhere". Perhaps... but it happens in Columbus more than anywhere else. Your scarlet and grey glasses prevent you from seeing the truth... SiC is right on the money!

Fact of the matter is, from Art Schlichter through Maurice Clarrett (a time period spanning more than 1 generation), tOSU has a developed quite a distinguished list of felons. I'll put our Arringtons, Lesuers, and fuck lions up against that bunch any day!

of course we have easy sorority girls, but they usually hang out on 15th and High, not 6th and High. Like i said earlier, maybe he just wanted some ass without having to talk to the girl afterwards (sorority girls here are pretty cute, but most of them don't make good conversation partners).

You know, sometimes the work that you'd have to put into it is worth more than $20 he offered the undercover. That's not my opinion or MO, but some people do operate like that.

As a Buckeye fan, I think what Henton did was completely stupid and an embarrassment to the program. You're a QB at THE Ohio State University! That should at least guarantee you some girl that rates a 5 as opposed to trying to pick up a $20 hooker.

And shave off that lame mustache.

However, here was my point in posting to begin with. Michigan has had way more arrests in the past year than OSU. This isn't just me throwing out random numbers, you can read it in the papers. I even threw out proof in the comments here (which was totally ignored, btw). Because of this indisputable fact, I feel that a Michigan fan lecturing me about the arrest records of the team I root for has about as much validity as Michael Vick telling me how to take care of my dogs.

The molestache/Buckstache is a good look OSU. Besides having twice as many arrests OSU, I think the real issue, in terms of media attention/ridicule, is who your criminals/money grubbers are. Mo Clarret-The hero back that won the national title. Troy Smith-Your handsomely paid starting qb. Face it. At least Tressel looks pious with the sweater vest. Must of picked up that trick when cheating at Youngstown.

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